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...living in extreme conditions, was alive and reveling in the swirl of mystery surrounding his disappearance. Manser was, after all, a man who would do almost anything to get publicity for his cause. In 1996, he slid almost 3 km down a half-frozen funicular railway cable in Switzerland; three years later, he buzzed the capital of Malaysia's Sarawak province in a motorized hang glider. According to Roger Graf, who joined Manser in the mid-1980s to try to stop logging in Sarawak, where the tribe is based, all that's really certain is that Manser was very close...
...Wednesday, while markets in Chile, France, India, Italy, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland take the day off, Wall Street soldiers on and hears about - drumroll, please - June business inventories, July industrial production, and July capacity utilization...
...were "required to approve all diversions and exports of water" from the U.S. section of the Great Lakes basin. "There are places even in New York State that are crazy for water," steamed Mayor William Ruoff, who added that inquiries had come from as far away as Texas and Switzerland. "Why shouldn't we help them when we have water to spare?" Not to mention village coffers to line. At current bulk-water prices of $2 per 1,000 gal. for shipping within the U.S., Webster stood to earn as much as $2 million a year from the scheme...
...humanity. The general, who arrived wearing his uniform and medals, is the first Croatian to appear before the court. The charges against him relate to a Croatian assault on the Medak pocket in 1993, when Croatian soldiers under his command murdered at least 38 Serbs. He pleaded not guilty. SWITZERLAND Another "No" Having withdrawn from the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions and turned down proposals to curb the trade in small arms, the U.S. further dismayed international opinion by rejecting...
...rooted in Tibetan culture and civilization. Rich in symbols, metaphors and allegories, the art too is exclusively sacred in nature, and to the devout the images retain their divine powers even when on display. Like a mandala, the exhibit of Tibetan art at the Museum der Kulturen in Basel, Switzerland takes visitors on a journey through the mystic universe of Buddhist deities, monks and saints. The exhibition, which lasts through the end of October, presents one of the most important collections of Tibetan art in the world. It was compiled over three decades by a German theological scholar, Gerd-Wolfgang...